Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2021/03/09

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Subject: [Leica] Antenna vs. roof
From: don.dory at gmail.com (Don Dory)
Date: Tue, 9 Mar 2021 21:30:29 -0600
References: <1535c775-7801-b1ed-94e5-edb835231be2@gmail.com>

Based on standard construction heights your antennae is below their roof
unless your antebellum exceeds ten feet in height.   I would just raise
your antenna several feet and you week be good.   You have a low pitch roof
so working from your roof wouldn't be Rio bad.

On Tue, Mar 9, 2021, 9:00 PM Peter Klein via LUG <lug at leica-users.org>
wrote:

> This is sort of off-topic, but does involve photography. Is the top of
> my roof tower a bit higher than my neighbor's roof, as it appears to be?
> Or does my iPhone 7 camera's distortion or where I stood make the
> picture meaningless? This is significant because I'm thinking of putting
> up a directional antenna for VHF (ham radio), and having a unobstructed
> view of the horizon is very desirable.
> <
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/pklein/temp/IMG_1036RoofAntennas-w.jpg.html
> >
>
> If you know of a reasonably easy way to determine this without expensive
> surveyor's tools, please tell. ("Brother, can you spare a Theodolite?")
>
> Background:  When the roof tower was installed, the house on the left
> was a one-story rambler. Now it's a McMansion.
>
> --Peter
>
>
>
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Replies: Reply from bmwred735i at gmail.com (Frank Filippone) ([Leica] Antenna vs. roof)
In reply to: Message from boulanger.croissant at gmail.com (Peter Klein) ([Leica] Antenna vs. roof)